Medical Technologies and the Life World - The Social Construction of Normality

Informationen zum Autor Sonia Olin Lauritzen, Lars-Christer Hyden Klappentext What is the impact of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine on people's lives? This ground-breaking text explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body. Zusammenfassung What is the impact of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine on people's lives? This ground-breaking text explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Medical technologies, the lifeworld and normality: An introduction Sonja Olin Lauritzen & Lars-Christer Hydén Chapter 2 Learning to talk and talking about talk: Professional identity and communicative technology Lars-Christer Hydén & Antje Lumma Chapter 3 What’s in a Pap smear? Biology, culture, technology and self in the cytology laboratory Anette Forss Chapter 4 Gyneacologists and geneticists as storytellers: Disease, choice and normality as the fabric of narratives on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis Kristin Zeiler Chapter 5 The normal baby-to-be: Lay and professional negotiations of the ultrasound image Ann-Cristine Jonsson Chapter 6 A normal pregnancy? Women’s experiences of being at high risk after ultrasound screening for Down syndrome Sonja Olin Lauritzen, Susanne Georgsson Öhman & Sissel Saltvedt Chapter 7 Imaging technology and the detection of ‘cold aneurysms’: Illness narratives on the Internet Gunilla Tegern Chapter 8 Phenomenology listens to Prozac: Analyzing the SSRI revolution Fredrik Svenaeus

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• Authors: Sonia Olin (Stockholm University Lauritzen, Sonia Olin Hyden Lauritzen
• Assisted by: Lars-Christer Hyden (Editor), Hyden Lars-Christer (Editor), Sonia Olin Lauritzen (Editor), Lauritzen Sonia Olin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2006
• EAN: 9780415364331
• ISBN: 978-0-415-36433-1
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Critical Studies in Health and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Instruments & Supplies, Medical equipment & techniques, Medical equipment and techniques